AMC's 'The Audacity': A brutal and funny satire of Silicon Valley and the modern tech industry

SV also came out at a time when the tech industry was less threatening and definitely less mixed in politics than it currently is. It was easier to make fun of it back then without it becoming too depressing.

SV was great and also caused me legitimate stress with how real it was. I'm not at all interested in getting any darker.

SV was great when the point of the show was absurdism. It got too real and depressing and that’s when I lost interest

Then why did you keep watching it lol

Meat people?

No hot dog

> Who wants to see therapy sessions? Well, The Sopranos became the biggest hit while having its main character in therapy...

AMC strikes again!

The first episode of was overloaded with character intros. There are a million characters. The second episode takes off because you finically realize the hook is between Sara Goldberg and Billy Magnussen and Zach Galifinakis.

the hook is the end of the episode when the main character starts blackmailing his therapist. not sure how you missed that.

They're well acted satirizations of the typical wealthy tech types who are conniving and self centered who poorly maintain composure when faced with reasonably opposed questions and considerately posed disagreement. The premise is to show how unhinged they are and how their obsessive compulsive insistence on trying to make things work their way is going to inevitably have some unforseen catastrophe, either for them or for general circumstances. I understand being put off by a show because it's not your cup of tea but I'm two episodes in and even the annoying characters are well done. In current times a lot of TV is mass produced slop with writing that has no integrity and tries to orient the plot around emphasizing contemporary political narratives so that you have to sympathize with shilled political ideology at least on some subconscious level in order to be consistently engaged with the plot. This show has that to a slight degree but actually has an original enough concept for the way it's written to be actually watchable compared to how dull most shows are

The show doesn't revolve around therapy at all. I also didn't expect it to have so much comedy. The vibe reminded me of Beef, insane people all around

Maybe they all get cathartically brutally f****** murdered. Like Inglorious Bastards.

Boomer takes

Maybe they didn’t want to feel like they were copying Silicon Valley too much 😂

Shut up bot.

The irony of a bot writing this comment

AI ass comment

Yeah I couldn’t stand her acting at all, she’s miscast for sure.

same writer as succession

Clearly you didn’t watch the show. They’re using a technology that’s basically Gods Eye, it can track you anywhere and learn everything about you, and you can guess what an egotistical and insecure tech CEO does with that tech…. You’re wildly incorrect in your assumption, they’re portrayed relentlessly negatively. Everything is about perception, spin, growth and control with these guys.

watch it dude

The best version of this is in "The Other Two", where it plays out as one of the main characters going on dates with these guys and being annoyed that they want to take her into space. So good.